What is Language Anyway?

04/08/2013

Working at a talk radio station it's easy to forget how amazing the action at the core of what we do actually is. I'm talking about... well, talking. Most of us spend our lives in a nearly continuous storm of words and language. Communication is such a fundamental part of what we do it's astonishing when you discover there's actually a lot we don't know about words, not to mention why humans can even talk at all.

Professor of Applied Language at University of Queensland, Roly Sussex joined James on Sundays to unravel the Big 4 Questions of Linguistics.